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15 years ago

Quartus II on linux display problem

hi! i have been trying to install quartus and got some problems. at first, i could not install it because of '&' syntax error. then i tried sudo bash ./setup command and got over it. but then no...
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15 years ago

If you're running this on some version of Ubuntu, the problem lies in that on Debian-based distributions, /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/dash, which has a slightly different syntax than bash, which is what the installer scripts were written for. To work around this, do the following in a tty window: 

sudo rm /bin/sh
sudo ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh

<perform the installation>

and then, optionally: 

sudo rm /bin/sh
sudo ln -s /bin/dash /bin/sh

Best regards,

Ben